So finally
this week we started our field period of Hei Suomi! –program spring 2013. The 3rd
graders of South Range Elementary School have been so far, as we understand, very
interested and excited about our co-operation. We are already so delighted
about the great atmosphere which we are surrounded by in Steve Aho’s 3rd
grade’s class room.
At the
beginning we introduced ourselves with Matleena and we also told some basic
information about Finland and our backgrounds. Students got their Finnish first
names and it seemed that that kind of ice-breaker was great simple idea, thanks
to teacher Steve and last year’s students Sanna-Mari and Eeva.
During the
first week we dealt with Finnish immigration history of Copper Country in
nutshell and the students had as their first homework to ask, what kind of
different Finnish backgrounds they have in their home. After that we had
interesting discussion about the topic and we recognized that the kids were
truly interested about that topic.
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| Konsta and Kyösti are exploring the local newspaper. |
To explain
the distances and locations, Google Maps has been an invaluable tool!
We have already
taken our first steps as media producers too. Students have already learned the
basics of using SLR camera. We have also explored our E-Magazine ground so far
and started to do short introductions about kids there. Before introducing digital
format of magazine, we riffled together some local newspapers and explored what
kind of sections and contents they are including.
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| Jaakko and Antero, young journalists! |
Let’s hope
that the current snow storm wouldn’t cancel any lessons tomorrow, because we
have lot things to do before early May - and it already feels, that there’s not
too much time left anymore!
